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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Sure. But easy to manage the team in 20/20 hindsight.
I assess if it made sense at the time. At the time I didn't like the inclusion of the first but understood the rationale.
I get it though. You want BT gone and I don't. So we are probably going to consistently disagree on every position for and against.
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Ya it is not really hindsight because the Schenn deal was made right around the same time as the Hamonic deal. For almost the same value of picks. The Blues dumped a 29 year old 4.7 million dollar a year player who had 22 points, 34 points and 44 points the previous 3 seasons. The Flames had a 31 year old player who made 4.5 million and had 25 points, 39 points and 43 points the previous 3 years. Hextall wanted picks because he knew he was going to get a center at number 2 that year and also had Couturier and Filppula down the middle. He took the salary dump so he could get a second first round pick, but all he wanted was picks.
Brad had 4 dmen that had legitimately played in the top 4 the year before for the Flames. Since he is in on everything I am sure that he knew Hextall was shopping Schenn for around the same value in terms of picks as he eventually gave up for Hamonic and he would have likely known that Hextall only wanted picks. Brad had a team that had finished 16th in the league in goals for the year before. So in that moment, not hindsight, Brad wanted Hamonic and Brouwer over Schenn and whatever dman he could have got for 3.2-3.3 million.